When I worked for Service Merchandise our store was in an area heavily populated witholder people, mainly retired steelworkers. Hence our store would always have more weekdayfoot traffic than the others in town (where most of their customers were presumably at work).

Other places I worked it would have been extremely slow.

The busiest mid-January weekdays I recall were at a Hills store in Pittsburgh when theSteelers had made it into Super Bowl XXX. We set all kinds of records for January salesselling Steeler gear and apparel.